There is some sense — easier to feel than to state — in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future must be acknowledged to be as real as the present, and a certain emancipation from slavery to time is essential to philosophic thought.


Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, Chapter I, Section III (p. 21)

Bertrand Russell Quotes

There is some sense — easier to feel than to state — in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future...

There is some sense — easier to feel than to state — in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future...

There is some sense — easier to feel than to state — in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future...

There is some sense — easier to feel than to state — in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future...